Dr. Kurt C. Schlichting is E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities & Social Sciences & Professor of Sociology & Anthropology kurt@fairfield.edu
Hosted by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Eilléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City in 1942, educated there and at Oxford before spending her working life as an academic in Trinity College, Dublin. She was a founder member of Cyphers, a literary journal. She has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Irish Times Award for... | Read on »
Richard Seaford is Professor Emeritus of Greek at the University of Exeter. He is an expert on Greek Tragedy and on the Marxist/Structuralist interpretation of early Greek literature and world-view. His publications include Reciprocity and Ritual, Money and the Early Greek Mind, and Cosmology and the Polis. He has also published on the work and... | Read on »
The relationship between human beings and the notion of place is changing constantly; we are always in "natural" transition. Therefore observing, mapping, experiencing and analising the limits between the tangible and intangible while addressing socio-environmental (contemporary) concerns become relevant. This project has been an experimental form of work - like moving-while-doing - as an attempt... | Read on »
Chair: Prof. Patrick Lonergan, O'Donoghue Centre of DTP Text: Walter Benjamin, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility: Second Version'.
Dr Annemarie Brosnan (Mary Immaculate College, UL) 'The education of freed slaves in the American South'
As part of the Arts, Humanities and Innovation - Connecting with Industry series, Leon Butler, research fellow on the TechInnovate program at NUI Galway, will talk about design, and how PhD students might user their research skills in industry once they qualify. This series of talks is aimed at researchers from the Arts & Humanities, and will be of... | Read on »
PLEASE JOIN US FOR: “The Place of the Arts in Irish Education Revisiting the Benson Report 40 years on” Jane O’Hanlon (Poetry Ireland) 5.00-6.00 pm, March 16, 2017 GO11, James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway
Kylie Thomas is the author of the book Impossible Mourning: HIV/AIDS and Visuality after Apartheid and co-editor of the collection, Photography In and Out of Africa: Iterations with Difference. In early 2017 she will hold a European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Fellowship and will be based at the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies... | Read on »
Michael Rubenstein is an associate professor of English at Stony Brook University, where he teaches courses on postwar Anglophone literatures, film, Irish modernism, James Joyce, and the Environmental Humanities. His book, Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), received the Modernist Studies Association Prize and the American Conference... | Read on »
